10.26.2005

I owe a big thanks to Aquarium Drunk for pointing this little gem out to me over the summer. I've had it in steady rotation pretty much ever since, and if you're even a passing Steely Dan fan, you need to have it.

Aja came out in 1977 and Steely Dan took three years fighting with their record company before they released Gaucho in 1980. Unknown to most fans was the "lost" Gaucho, a complete album vastly different to what was released. Of the songs that appeared on Gaucho only three appeared on this lost version in different form. Read more from the original link: http://www.bigomagazine.com/archive/ARrarities/ARsdgaucho.html

Big O no longer has the tracks avaiable for download, but since my generosity knows no bounds, I have created a zip file of the entire disc here.

Tracklist:01 Kind Spirit 02 Were You Blind That Day [early version of Third World Man] 03 The Bear04 The Second Arrangement 05 Talkin’ About My Home 06 Time Out Of Mind 07 Kulee Baba 08 Gaucho [instrumental]

6 comments:

Shaun
said...

Hi. I am currently at about 1% through downloading the Steely Dan, and even though this might not ever finish, I just want to say a big thank you for being so kind and posting this! Hopefully this'll go through, but thanks for the opportunity or whatever!

hi, i've checked out your site before, and was directed to you via a search. i'm going through a steely dan phase you turned up online as having the 'lost' gaucho session. megaupload seems to be acting up, it alternately is giving me a message which says the file is missing or has exceeded the download limit. can you help a former alter boy who's down on his luck? thanks